APW Rim Country Chapter hybrid meeting 3/15 – Round table discussion
Topic: APW Rim Country Meeting -Round table discussion
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We’ll be discussing where each of us are in our writing.
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APW Rim Country Chapter Hybrid meeting w Brenda Whiteside
Connie Cockrell is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom and in-person meeting.
Topic: Brenda Whiteside – The Big “O”: Let’s Get Organized!
Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Time: 01:00 PM Arizona
In-person: Majestic Rim Living Community on E. Tyler Parkway next to the community garden. We’ll be in the chapel, just inside the lobby on the right side of the lobby.
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Join us as Brenda Whiteside talks about The Big “O”: Let’s Get Organized!
Getting organized before you type the first word in your new manuscript will save you frustration and time in both your writing career and personal life. Build your foundation first. Brenda will offer up tips, examples and samples, advice, and the tools to make your writing day flow easier and faster.
Bio: Brenda Whiteside is the award-winning author of romantic suspense, cozy mystery, and romance. She writes children’s books with her granddaughter under the names of Brenda Sue and Sadi Belle. The secret to being a prolific published author is getting organized.
She’s a born and bred Arizona native who sets her fictional stories in imaginary, but recognizable, Arizona locations. After marrying, she and her husband lived in six states and two countries, but a few years back they settled in Central Arizona. They admit to being gypsies at heart so won’t discount the possibility of another move. They share their home with a rescue dog named Amigo. While FDW fishes, Brenda writes.
Brenda’s website is BrendaWhiteside.com
APW Central Chapter 4/13 with Elizabeth Ajamie-Boyer
Susan Anderson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: APW Central Chapter Zoom Meeting with Elizabeth Ajamie-Boyer
Date: Apr 13, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM Arizona
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Topic: Elizabeth Ajamie-Boyer will speak a little about who she is, how she got started, how she chose historical fiction for her first books, and her process at that time.
Bio: From Phoenix, Arizona, Elizabeth Ajamie-Boyer graduated from East High School, South Mountain Community College, and Arizona State University. She writes her own books, and co-writes with her husband, TJ Boyer, primary author of The Mirror Gate Chronicles series. As a Christian, Elizabeth is called to write cozy literature. She and TJ recently co-wrote a cozy murder/mystery, also. You can find her on Amazon and on their website: mirrorgatechronicles.com/elizabeths-books-2-2/
Elizabeth and TJ have two children and three grandchildren.
APW Book Club 4/27/24 with Connie Cockrell
Topic: APW Book Club 4/27 with Connie Cockrell – Downtrodden
Date: Apr 27, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM Arizona
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Get started reading now so you can contribute! The Downtrodden is book two in the
Book description:
Wary after escaping from the Children of God, Alyssa and Kyra stop to help another survivor community but it’s up to Kyra to save them all from a mad man’s plans before they’re trapped.
Hardship, hunger, and thirst plague Kyra and Alyssa after their escape from the Children of God. A lucky find allows them to re-arm and resupply. Now they’ve found another survivor community and after watching the place for two days they decide to risk introducing themselves. They’re greeted with enthusiasm at the door but by that evening, find they’re trapped again in a community teetering on the brink of desperation. The survivors beg Kyra to help them remove the community’s leader but her plan pushes her to her limits. Can she carry out the plan or will she and Alyssa join the ranks of the downtrodden?
Bio
Connie Cockrell
A 20-year Air Force career, time as a manager at a computer operations company, wife, mother, sister, and volunteer, provides a rich background for Connie Cockrell’s storytelling.
Cockrell grew up in upstate NY, just outside of Gloversville, NY before she joined the military at age 18. Having lived in Europe, Great Britain, and several places around the United States, she now lives in Payson, AZ with her husband: hiking, gardening, and playing bunko. She writes about whatever comes into her head so her books could be in any genre. She’s published twenty books so far, has been included in five different anthologies and been published on EveryDayStories.com and FrontierTales.com. Connie’s always on the lookout for a good story idea. Beware, you may be the next one.
APW Central Zoom – 3/9/24 – Bart Ambrose
Susan Anderson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
TOPIC: APW Central Speaker: Historical Author Bart Ambrose talks about his inspiration and writing process.
DATE: Saturday, March 9, 2024
TIME: 10:00 AM Arizona
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TOPIC- Historical author Bart Ambrose talks about his inspiration and writing process.
BART AMBROSE
Arizona native Bart Ambrose grew up on an Arizona cotton farm where he spent his nights reading novels and teaching himself to play guitar. He graduated from ASU and worked as a natural resource conservationist throughout the West and the Pacific basin. A second career took him to Nashville, writing and teaching songwriting and guitar. He relocated back to Arizona to pursue his writing interests with a focus on Arizona and the Southwest.
His first two novels are historical fiction set in early to mid-twentieth-century Arizona. Both take readers on vivid journeys and adventures in a fascinating era of the state’s history. Bart and his wife live near Tucson, Arizona. His hobbies include writing haiku, travel, and the pursuit of the perfect chili relleno. More information about Bart, his books, and his music is available on his website at BartAmbrose.com.
APW Rim Country Chapter – 2/21/24 Writing a bio
Connie Cockrell is inviting you to a hybrid in-person/Zoom meeting.
The Rim Country chapter of the Arizona Professional Writers will meet on February 21st at 1pm in the Majestic Rim Living facility on E. Tyler Parkway, in the chapel off of the lobby.The speaker will be chapter president, Connie Cockrell. Her presentation will be on how to write a bio.
Topic: Connie Cockrell on how to write a bio.
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Time: 1 pm
Location: Majestic Rim Living in Payson on E. Tyler Parkway in the chapel off the lobby.
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HANDOUT: Available at the meeting. It will be sent out to those attending on Zoom. Please print it before the meeting so you can follow along.
TOPIC: An author’s bio, while not long, holds a key spot in any author’s marketing and advertising work. Learn about the key parts of the bio and how to write them.
Connie Cockrell
BIO: Connie Cockrell is a 20-year Air Force career, a manager at a computer operations company, as well as wife, mother, sister and volunteer. All this experience provides a rich background for her storytelling.
She writes about whatever comes into her head so her books could be in any genre. She’s published 20 books, has been included in five anthologies and been published on EveryDayStories.com and FrontierTales.com. Connie’s always on the lookout for a good story idea. Beware, you may be the next one.
She can be found at conniesrandomthoughts.com or on Facebook at: Facebook.com/ConniesRandomThoughts or on Twitter at: @ConnieCockrell or on Amazon at amazon.com/author/conniecockrell
APW Board meeting February 4
APW Book Club 2/24/24 with Connie Cockrell
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Connie Cockrell has graciously agreed to present her book for our review. If you are interested in presenting, send Karen an email and she will put you on the schedule.
APW Book Group with Connie Cockrell and First Encounter
Date: Saturday, February 24
Time: 10 am
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First Encounter: A SciFi, Young Adult, Post Apocalyptic Story by Connie Cockrell
Book Blurb:
It took a month of hard travel to find their first survivor community. After a cool welcome and a meager feast, Alyssa and Kyra find that the community has very restrictive roles they expect women to take. Imprisoned and starved, a young woman befriends them at great risk to herself. When the woman tells them the men of the community are bidding on Kyra to take to wife, they form a plan to escape. Weak, hungry and afraid, will Alyssa and Kyra have the strength to escape certain slavery?
Connie Cockrell Bio
Connie Cockrell
A 20-year Air Force career, time as a manager at a computer operations company, wife, mother, sister, and volunteer, provides a rich background for Connie Cockrell’s storytelling.
Cockrell grew up in upstate NY, just outside of Gloversville, NY before she joined the military at age 18. Having lived in Europe, Great Britain, and several places around the United States, she now lives in Payson, AZ with her husband hiking, gardening, and playing bunko. She writes about whatever comes into her head so her books could be in any genre. She’s published twenty books so far, has been included in five different anthologies and been published on EveryDayStories.com and FrontierTales.com. Connie’s always on the lookout for a good story idea. Beware, you may be the next one.
She can be found at ConniesRandomThoughts.com or on Facebook at: Facebook.com/ConniesRandomThoughts or on Amazon at Amazon.com/author/conniecockrell
You can purchase the book at Amazon on Kindle ($.99) or in paperback.
APW Rim County Chapter 1/17/24 – Kent Thompson
Rim Country Chapter meeting – in person and on Zoom!
APW Rim Country Chapter meeting will be held at 1 pm on January 17th at Majestic Rim Retirement on E. Tyler Parkway in their meeting room off the lobby. The speaker is Kent Thompson. The presentation will also be on Zoom.
Connie Cockrell is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: APW Rim Country Chapter with Kent Thompson, author of historical fiction A Patriot’s Dream
Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Time: 01:00 PM Arizona
Location: Majestic Rim Retirement on E. Tyler Parkway, Payson, AZ in their meeting room off the lobby OR
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Bio: Kent Thompson grew up in Newcastle, Wyoming. After a few years in California, he met his wife and they moved back to Wyoming so Kent could finish college at the University of Wyoming, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in history.
Though his original career goal was to teach history and coach football and basketball, he ended up with a career in the oil industry back in California. Towards the end he supervised three offshore platforms and worked with Navy SEAL TRADET to plan SEAL training on those platforms. Kent and Susan now live in a small mountain town in Arizona. They will never actually “retire.” They have three grown children and two grandsons.
Kent is a lifelong student of the U.S. Constitution and the Federalist Papers and has authored the fiction book, A Patriot’s Dream: The Restoration. He’ll be talking about his book and writing historical fiction.
APW Central Zoom – 1-13-24 Words are Power with Jacque Hillman
Susan Anderson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: APW Central – Words Are Power!
Date: Saturday, January 13, 2024
Time:10:00 AM Arizona
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Words Are Power: Jacque Hillman, book editor and CEO of The HillHelen Group, says the right words zing into the readers’ minds. She shows how she plugs her writers into their power and how top writers view their success, sharing five tips to access the energy of words.
Bio- Jacque Hillman, of Mesa, Arizona, is senior editor and CEO of HillHelen Group Publishers LLC. A top writer and editor at The Jackson Sun for 23 years, now she edits and publishes books for authors nationwide. She also writes for her clients.
Hillman co-authored Captain of the Tides: Gunner Morgan, with Charles D. Morgan, a novel about his grandfather, US Navy hero, Charles “Gunner” Morgan, 1865-1959. The book won the Military Writers Society of America 2022 Bronze medal. Kirkus Reviews says: “An impeccably researched and engaging tale of an authentic war hero.”
Hillman edited and published the award-winning book, Why Can’t Mother Vote? Joseph Hanover and the Unfinished Business of Democracy by Bill Haltom. Joseph Hanover was a Polish Jewish immigrant from Memphis, who kept together the votes needed to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment in the Tennessee legislature. The book is up for the American Book Fest Legacy Award.
She’s a member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, the Historical Novel Society, the National Federation of Press Women and the Mesa Art League. During her years living in Jackson, Tennessee, she was named a 2014 Sterling Award Winner: 20 Most Influential Women in West Tennessee. She served as president of Business and Professional Women of Tennessee. She is co-founder of the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail.
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